COMMENTARY.

V.11. Wherefore remember, 1. 6. since God has done such great things for you, call to mind your former condition, as a motive both for humility and gratitude. That ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, ἔθνη ἐν σαρκί, i. 6. uncircumcised heathen. This gives in a word the description of their former state. All that follows, in this and the succeeding verse, is but ampli- fication of this idea. The words zm the jlesh, do not mean origine carnali, natalibus, by birth; nor as te